Beyond The Spotlight: The Misrepresentation of Women
TLC’s original music video, “Unpretty” and Susan Bordo’s essay, “Material Girl” critiques the way women portray themselves by society’s definition of beauty. Women will compete for their spouse’s attention against other females with sexually, idolized bodies because they feel they lack certain aspects. Women must learn to love themselves before they can love someone else and know their self-worth; otherwise, they may take whatever that person thinks and feels about them and have the same outlook about themselves. Women are putting themselves through unrealistic, desperate measures to pleasure themselves …show more content…
Medical News Today editor Christian Nordvark states that “a much greater proportion of patients who undergo cosmetic surgery have psychological problems, such as depression or Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) compared to people who never went such procedures. BDD is a body imaging disorder that is characterized in the belief of one owns appearance is defective and can be hidden or fixed. Women have different ways to deal with their emotions, some resorting to surgery and others eating their lives away. This results in low self-esteem. Most celebrities looked attractive before resorting to cosmetic surgery, such as Megan Fox, Lil Kim, and Janice Dickinson. Women think plastic surgery is the route to take to cover up their flaws, but sometimes it ends up creating a much bigger defect for everyone to view. The risks of getting cosmetic surgery outweigh the benefits heavily. Women wish to look better after surgery, now on the other hand, the risks involve hematoma (a collection of blood outside of a blood vessel), pneumonia, scarring, complications from anesthesia, even death, and many more. Beauty comes from within the body. Most women should change themselves internally because that’s where the problem relates to more than the
TLC’s original music video, “Unpretty” and Susan Bordo’s essay, “Material Girl” critiques the way women portray themselves by society’s definition of beauty. Women will compete for their spouse’s attention against other females with sexually, idolized bodies because they feel they lack certain aspects. Women must learn to love themselves before they can love someone else and know their self-worth; otherwise, they may take whatever that person thinks and feels about them and have the same outlook about themselves. Women are putting themselves through unrealistic, desperate measures to pleasure themselves …show more content…
Medical News Today editor Christian Nordvark states that “a much greater proportion of patients who undergo cosmetic surgery have psychological problems, such as depression or Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) compared to people who never went such procedures. BDD is a body imaging disorder that is characterized in the belief of one owns appearance is defective and can be hidden or fixed. Women have different ways to deal with their emotions, some resorting to surgery and others eating their lives away. This results in low self-esteem. Most celebrities looked attractive before resorting to cosmetic surgery, such as Megan Fox, Lil Kim, and Janice Dickinson. Women think plastic surgery is the route to take to cover up their flaws, but sometimes it ends up creating a much bigger defect for everyone to view. The risks of getting cosmetic surgery outweigh the benefits heavily. Women wish to look better after surgery, now on the other hand, the risks involve hematoma (a collection of blood outside of a blood vessel), pneumonia, scarring, complications from anesthesia, even death, and many more. Beauty comes from within the body. Most women should change themselves internally because that’s where the problem relates to more than the